Moses Corbet

Moses Corbet (1728-1814) was Lieutenant-Governor of Jersey from 4 April 1771 to 6 January 1781, succeeding Rudolph Bentinck and preceding Francis Peirson.

Biography
Moses Corbet was born in 1728, and he joined the British Army in 1745. He served as an ensign in the 7th Regiment of Foot during the Seven Years' War, fighting at Fort St. Phillip in Minorca in 1756 before being stationed in Gibraltar. Corbet was forced to return to England due to illness, and in 1761 he was promoted to Major. In 1771, he became Lieutenant-Governor of Jersey, and he defeated a failed 1779 invasion of Jersey by the Kingdom of France. In January 1781, he was captured by the French Army in the battle of Jersey, and his second-in-command Francis Peirson led a counterattack against the French that forced them to retreat, although at the cost of his own life. Corbet was dismissed after a court martial trial that charged him with attempting to convince his subordinates to surrender while he was a prisoner of the French, and he died at the age of 86 in England in 1814.